A computational transonic wing design procedure has been developed and verified by a wind tunnel test of a variable camber semi-span wing model. The Bailey-Ballhaus transonic potential flow analysis code linked to Vanderplaat's constrained minimization routine was used to optimize test configurations at 0.9 Mach number. Based on wind tunnel test results, computationally optimized designs were as efficient as the best configurations determined by previous parametric testing and performed better at off-design points. Wind tunnel wing pressures agreed well with predictions from the improved Bailey-Ballhaus code at moderate CL's. Computational optimization was shown to be an effective transonic wing design tool.


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    Title :

    Computational wing optimization and wind tunnel test of semi-span model


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace Sciences Meeting ; 1978 ; Huntsville, AL


    Publication date :

    1978-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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